Oil palm biomass as an adsorbent for heavy metals

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 232, Issue , 2014, Pages 61-88

  Vakili, Mohammadtaghi ^a   Rafatullah, Mohd ^a   Ibrahim, Mahamad Hakimi ^a   Abdullah, Ahmad Zuhairi ^b   Salamatinia, Babak ^c   Gholami, Zahra ^b  

^a Universiti Sains Malaysia   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

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EID: 84958550503     PISSN: 01795953     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06746-9_3     Document Type: Article

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